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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> libwin32-perl
libwin32-perl
RE: $Win32::VERSION problem
by Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes other posts by this author
Mar 7 2007 3:13PM messages near this date
RE: $Win32::VERSION problem | New website win32.perl.org
>  On Wed, 07 Mar 2007, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> > Jan Dubois wrote:
> >>   file: $CPAN/authors/id/J/JD/JDB/Win32-0.27.tar.gz
> >>   file: $CPAN/authors/id/J/JD/JDB/libwin32-0.27.tar.gz
> >
> > Thanks a lot for doing this, Jan.
> >
> > Should the libwin32 distribution have the newest Win32 and
> > Win32API::File as prereqs, so those who upgrade it automatically get
> > those as well? I can see it both ways.
> 
>  I don't think so, as they are not really pre-requisites.  libwin32
>  should work just fine with an older Win32 module, and doesn't reference
>  Win32API::File internally at all.
> 
>  Maybe I should release a Bundle::libwin32 module that continues to
>  bundle all the parts that have historically been part of libwin32?
> 
>  I intend to release *all* modules that are currently only available
>  through libwin32 as individual distributions too, so that people
>  can install them separately.  More importantly, it allows me to
>  work on releasing updates one module at a time; I never seem to find
>  time to update all modules in libwin32 together and make another release.

I had the impression you were planning on removing them from libwin32
as you updated/created the individual distributions - if so, libwin32
in effect *is* the Bundle, so long as it "requires" all the other
distributions.  But whatever you want to do is ok with me.
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Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Jan Dubois
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes

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